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In 2017, the generosity of Canadians helped Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continue to deliver lifesaving emergency healthcare to people caught up in some of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

The 2017 MSF Canada Impact Report looks at the emergency humanitarian medical action you helped us carry out last year: where we worked, the challenges we faced, and the lifesaving differences you helped us make in the lives of people made vulnerable by conflict, disease, exclusion and disaster. The Impact Report is also available as a PDF.

Canadian financial support made a direct impact in 33 countries in 2017, including our search-and-rescue operations on the Mediterranean Sea. Canadian field staff, meanwhile, were on the ground in nearly every context where MSF works around the world.

MSF provides humanitarian emergency medical care to people affected by violence and displacement in some of the world's worst conflict zones. Our presence reminds people who have lost all hope that the world has not forgotten them.

Every year, millions of people around the world die from preventable diseases. The majority of them are children, mostly under the age of five, living in low-income countries. MSF works on the front lines of disease treatment and prevention in nearly 70 countries.

Many of the world’s most critical ongoing health crises are the result not of disaster or conflict but of poverty, persecution and neglect, which leaves vulnerable people excluded from the healthcare they urgently need.

Disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes and landslides often create major humanitarian emergencies. MSF must respond rapidly in order to save lives - especially within the critical first 72 hours, a window of time that can make the difference between life and death.

In 2017, Canadians raised funds and worked overseas for MSF in record numbers; we were named one of Canada's top employers, and received recognition from the federal government. Whether in the spotlight or out, we dedicate ourselves to providing care to those who need it most.